[QUOTE=Shawn;544349]Yes, because you should never challenge a QB to grow or improve his game.[/QUOTE]

That is not what I am saying--that is your interpretation or perception.

Everyone has abilities that come naturally to them, e.g.--public speaking. Those skill sets can be enhanced with further development. That is playing to a 'strength'. Eliminating or changing a weakness will that take much more deliberation, cognition, and skill enhancement to change. When it comes to crunch time, the natural inclination will be to use a strength.

A real teacher can help a person identify their natural strengths and fine tune them; help also to identify a weakness & ways to lessen, mitigate or transition into a strength.

01-13-2013, 04:03 PM

Shawn

[QUOTE=kindlecatsb'ng;544368]That is not what I am saying--that is your interpretation or perception.

Everyone has abilities that come naturally to them, e.g.--public speaking. Those skill sets can be enhanced with further development. That is playing to a 'strength'. Eliminating or changing a weakness will that take much more deliberation, cognition, and skill enhancement to change. When it comes to crunch time, the natural inclination will be to use a strength.

A real teacher can help a person identify their natural strengths and fine tune them; help also to identify a weakness & ways to lessen, mitigate or transition into a strength.[/QUOTE]

Ben.....Ben Ben Ben. Haley sucks.........Ben....Ben....Ben. All the Rooney's suck. Ben....Ben....Ben.....Ben.... Hines Ward sucks... If only Ben could own coach and QB the team the steelers would be unstoppable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=7 UP;544379]Ben.....Ben Ben Ben. Haley sucks.........Ben....Ben....Ben. All the Rooney's suck. Ben....Ben....Ben.....Ben.... Hines Ward sucks... If only Ben could own coach and QB the team the steelers would be unstoppable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=7 UP;544379]Ben.....Ben Ben Ben. Haley sucks.........Ben....Ben....Ben. All the Rooney's suck. Ben....Ben....Ben.....Ben.... Hines Ward sucks... If only Ben could own coach and QB the team the steelers would be unstoppable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thing is- the Haley offense isn't bad. It just doesn't suit this group of players- outside of Heath Miller.

If you are having trouble believing this to be the case- explain this: You have an all-pro QB that has made a living of moving around the pocket to make plays. He has, historically, taken a beating as a result of this, coupled with playing some less-than-stellar OL players in front of him (Mahan, Stapleton, Jonathon Scott.. need we continue?).

You have a stable of exciting young WR. The leading WR for the last 3 years is a supreme deep-threat. We have no big, physical WR that can turn a short catch into a long run, or fight through traffic.

We have a stable of average, unproven RB's outside of Mendenhall.

So, in order to succeed, the Haley offense:

Works on keeping Ben in the pocket more.

Takes away the deep route & focuses on shorter routes.

Puts more emphasis on running.

It's like the Steelers looked at the players on Offense & said "how can we work against their strengths best?". Haley can't really be blamed- it was the Offense that he was hired to bring in. It was designed to keep Ben upright more, which it did, to a degree (anyone want to argue that by putting better OL players on the field they'd achieve the same results?).